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GENERAL GEORGE CROOK.
ON THE BORDER WITH CROOK
whose learned and graceful pen has illustrated the History,Traditions, Wonders and Resources of the Great West, thisvolume,—descriptive of the trials and tribulations, hopes andfears of brave officers and enlisted men of the regular Army,who did so much to conquer and develop the empire beyond theMissouri,—is affectionately inscribed by his admirer and friend,
PREFACE.
There is an old saw in the army which teaches that you cannever know a man until after having made a scout with him inbad weather. All the good qualities and bad in the human makeupforce their way to the surface under the stimulus of privationand danger, and it not infrequently happens that the comradewho at